Thursday, October 17, 2002
Digital Comics Coming Soon?
Posted by Brad Adrian in "CONTENT" @ 11:04 AM
http://www.beamable.com/
We received some information about a group of people at start-up beamable.com that plans to begin selling digital comic books in the near future for Pocket PCs, Palm devices and J2ME Smartphones. They don't really have any books available yet, but they are looking for people to try out their special viewer and provide any feedback.
As I was looking at the three-frame test issue from the site, I was reminded of the illustrated "Comic Book Classics" that my school teachers used to try to get us interested in - books like "Treasure Island" and "David Copperfield" (It didn't work). Could this be the latest, more modern incarnation? Judging by the various SpiderMan, SpeedRacer and Wolverine avatars among this readership, I suspect you'd all prefer the good, old-fashioned kind of comics we all grew up with. Right?
We received some information about a group of people at start-up beamable.com that plans to begin selling digital comic books in the near future for Pocket PCs, Palm devices and J2ME Smartphones. They don't really have any books available yet, but they are looking for people to try out their special viewer and provide any feedback.
As I was looking at the three-frame test issue from the site, I was reminded of the illustrated "Comic Book Classics" that my school teachers used to try to get us interested in - books like "Treasure Island" and "David Copperfield" (It didn't work). Could this be the latest, more modern incarnation? Judging by the various SpiderMan, SpeedRacer and Wolverine avatars among this readership, I suspect you'd all prefer the good, old-fashioned kind of comics we all grew up with. Right?
